Sustainable Development of Mountains, Landscape and Coastal Regions

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On the occasion of the 19th Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, the Sustainable Development Committee tabled three reports for debate:Sustainable development of mountain regions and the experience of the Carpathian Mountains; Landscape: a new dimension of public territorial action; and Coastal towns and cities tackling threats from the sea.

Speakers at the debate

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Mykhaylo Kichkovskyy: “Economic and social cohesion should be at the heart of mountain policies”
Presenting the report, Mykhayo Kichkovskyy, (Ukraine, EPP/CD) Rapporteur for the for the Committee on Sustainable Development, stressed: “These policies require measures compatible with the protection of, and respect for, the environment and which take into account the human and democratic rights of mountain residents”.
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Devrim Cukur: “Increased attention must be paid to the landscape from all levels of governance”
"Local and regional authorities should be supported in their landscape- related tasks both at national and international level, which today represents a new dimension of public territorial action”, stressed Devrim Cukur (Turkey, SOC, photo), as he led the debate on public action for landscape, based on the report co-written with Rapporteur Inger Linge (Sweden, EPP/CD).
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Iñigo de la Serna Hernáiz: “Short, medium and long-term responses are crucial in improving the resilience of coastal towns to maritime threats”
“Local and regional authorities have a major role to play in reacting to the specific challenges facing coastal areas which demands the development of a new risk culture and new governance practices,” Rapporteur Iñigo de la Serna Hernáiz (Spain, EPP/CD, photo) emphasised when presenting a report on municipalities tackling the impact of climate change on coastal areas.
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Video of the debates



Sustainable development of mountain regions and the experience of the Carpathian Mountains
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Landscape: a new dimension of public territorial action-Committee on Sustainable Development
       Original    |    English    |    French

Coastal towns and cities tackling threats from the sea
       Original    |    English    |    French